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Title: A Little Girl in Old Quebec
Author: Amanda Millie Douglas
Release Date: December 9, 2007 [EBook #23779]
Language: English
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A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD QUEBEC
By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS
A. L. BURT COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Copyright, 1906
BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
CONTENTS
I. A WILD ROSE
II. THE JOY OF FRIENDSHIP
III. SUMMER TIME
IV. A HUSBAND
V. CHANGING ABOUT
VI. FINDING AMUSEMENTS
VII. JOURNEYING TO A FAR COUNTRY
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VIII. WHAT ROSE DID NOT LIKE
IX. ABOUT MARRIAGES
X. MILADI AND M. DESTOURNIER
XI. A FEAST OF SUMMER
XII. A LOVER IN EARNEST
XIII. FROM A GIRL’S HEART
XIV. A WAY OVER THORNS
XV. HELD IN AN ENEMY’S GRASP
XVI. A LOVER OF THE WILDERNESS
XVII. THE PASSING OF OLD QUEBEC
A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD QUEBEC
CHAPTER I
A WILD ROSE
Ralph Destournier went gayly along, whistling a merry French song that
was nearly all chorus, climbing, slipping, springing, wondering in his
heart as many a man did then what had induced Samuel de Champlain to
dream out a city on this craggy, rocky spot. Yet its wildness had an
impressive grandeur. Above the island of Orleans the channel narrowed,
and there were the lovely green heights of what was to be Point Levis,
more attractive, he thought, than these frowning cliffs. The angle
between the St. Charles and St. Lawrence gave an impregnable site for a
fortress, and Champlain was a born soldier with a quick eye to seize on
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